Felt the car’s balance improved as the race went on – but didn’t want to risk a tangle with his team mate:

Certainly I would have been fighting at the end if it hadn?óÔé¼Ôäót been my team mate in front of me. Our team needed desperately to bring both cars home and score this point. You have to be careful taking risks and this was not the time to attack and risk losing everything. It is better this point stays with us rather then going somewhere else. We finished this race being competitive and this is very good.Pedro de la Rosa

Kobayashi was not as happy with his tyres at the end of the race as de la Rosa was and he was passed by Sutil again:

The car was better on the harder tyre compound, therefore we did a very short first stint on the softer ones. I pitted after ten laps and drove the rest of the race with the same set of tyres. In the end I could see from the car the canvas on the front right tyre. Therefore I started to be very careful, especially in turn 8, and that?óÔé¼Ôäós also the reason why I didn?óÔé¼Ôäót defend any harder against Adrian Sutil.Kamui Kobayashi

Vitaly Petrov’s tangle with Alonso promoted Kobayashi to tenth, scoring his and Sauber’s first point of 2010.

2. Sauber has always been close to Ferrari (fisi, kimi, massa), even their engines are italian stallions. because art owner nicolas todt manages bianchi at art and massa at prancing horse, sauber could once again be a training ground for drivers in the ferrari development programme such as bianchi.